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tenoko74

Member

Registered: 2009-05-17

Posts: 2

Rename files with brackets

I have files that are [blah]name_v1_chp3.zip and I want them to be name v01 c003 [blah].zip

would a script or a regex work to do this

krtek

Senior Member

From: Łódź (Poland)

Registered: 2008-02-21

Posts: 262

Re: Rename files with brackets

Sure it would:

Regex:  (\[.+\])(.+)_v(\d)_chp(\d+)
Replace: $2 v0$3 c00$4 $1

The only problem is with number of zeros. If they may vary you might need more than one regex,eg. like these ones:

Regex:  ^(\[.+\])(.+)_v(\d)_chp(\d)$
Replace: $2 v0$3 c00$4 $1

Regex:  ^(\[.+\])(.+)_v(\d)_chp(\d{2})$
Replace: $2 v0$3 c0$4 $1

And remember to have "skip extention" ticked on.

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